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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kvisti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kweistei. Related to Latvian kvitêt (to shimmer, to glimmer).

  • Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt-, where Proto-Indo-European *ḱw- is depalatalized to *kw- in Balto-Slavic before a back vowel but has its regular reflex św- before a front vowel, and the complex pattern of related Proto-Slavic words with *kv- and *sv- (see Related terms, below) is due to analogical changes in both directions.
  • Per Rix (LIV), there are two separate roots, Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt- (to become bright) and Proto-Indo-European *kweyt- (to shine), the latter found only in Balto-Slavic.
  • Chernykh refers to a substitution of "West-European" *k in place of *ḱ-, presumably suggesting a borrowing from a Centum language to the West of Proto-Balto-Slavic.
  • Trubachev's theory is of "secondary centumization", which appears to be essentially the same as Chernykh's.

Verb

*kvistì impf[1][2][3]

  1. to bloom, to blossom, to flower

Conjugation

Descendants

Some descendants have generalised the present stem to the infinitive.

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: цвьсти (cvĭsti)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: kvisti
    • Old Polish: kwiść
      • Polish: kwiść (archaic or dialectal)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: kwisć
      • Upper Sorbian: 1sg. ktu (infinitive kćěć is from *kvьtěti)

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “цвести́, цвету́”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 362
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “цвет”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*k̑u̯ei̯t-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 340
  • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*ku̯ei̯t-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 375
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kvisti, kvitǫ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 167

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kvisti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 259:v. (c) ‘bloom, blossom’
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “kvisti: kvьtǫ kvьtetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c blomstre (PR 139)
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016) “cvẹ̑t”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:*kvisti̋, sed. *kvь̏tǫ
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